‘All day the clouds
Grow cold and fall,
And soft the white fleece shrouds
Field, hill and wall;
And now I know
Why comes the snow:
The bare black places lie
Too near the sky.’
‘Snow’ (1920), by American poet Charles Bertram Johnson.
Snow showers falling from a Cumulonimbus, exhibiting the pouch-like cloud features known as mamma, spotted near Mackay, Idaho, US by Julie Kramer (Member 59,280).